2 Chronicles 3:5

And, the greater house, covered he with cypress wood, and overlaid it with fine gold,—and raised thereon palms, and wreathed garlands.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

In Context

4And, the porch which was in front of the length, in front of the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and, the height thereof, was a hundred and twenty,—and he overlaid it, within, with pure gold.

6And he covered the house with precious stones, for beauty,—and, the gold, was gold of Parvaim.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:21Thus then did Solomon overlay the house within, with pure gold,—and he drew chains of gold across the front of the shrine, and overlaid it with gold;

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 3:2-10

The Temple Built. ( b. c. 1012.) 1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth… Read the whole commentary →

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